TGIF! What are you up to this weekend? Tonight I'm taking my darling friend Rose, who's visiting from the UK, to a basketball game down the street from our home at Barclays Centre. I intend to introduce her to giant hot dogs, Coors Light and how to jump most effectively to catch the T-shirts they shoot out with a giant cannon ball. Oh America, you nutcase, I lurve you. The rest of the weekend is filled with gatherings at friends houses and (hopefully) strong arming my hard working husband into watching a Making a Murderer marathon with me (we still have five episodes to go. I am obsessed). Have a beautiful one, you loves. See ya on Monday.

I'm Alexandra King-Lyles, a journalist and writer living on a tree-lined street in Park Slope, Brooklyn with my husband Isaac and two black cats. I moved to New York from London in 2009, thinking I would only stay for nine months. Seven years later, I'm still here. On The Street Where I Live, you'll find real talk about relationships, careers, interiors, books and fashion as well as snapshots and personal stories from a blissfully imperfect life. Welcome, I'm so glad you're here.